On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 17:51:16 +0000, Eric Kow wrote: > 2. The Unicode guru review: are the things the patch bundle > says it does the right things to do? It sounds like this is not just > a matter of understanding the specs, but having real life experience > and flamewar scorch marks to go along with it.
Oh! I hadn't realised that John Cowan has already responded when I wrote this. See http://bugs.darcs.net/patch37 Trent said: | John Cowan is a Unicode guru, and I asked him to take a quick look at | this patch. Here are his comments: | | twb> Darcs is a VCS implemented in Haskell. There is a patch to make | twb> it understand (in some places) Unicode, instead of just treating | twb> everything as sequences of bytes. Can you recommend someone to | twb> review this patch from a "knows about Unicode" perspective? | | jcowan> I'll look at it myself. Though I'm no Haskell maven, so I may | jcowan> have questions. [...] I'm looking at the .diff. I can sort | jcowan> of imagine the original. Hmm, the XML escaping looks | jcowan> problematic, unless it's something about laziness I don't | jcowan> understand. You need to convert & to & first before the | jcowan> others are done. Slavoj Žižek! Cool! [...] Except for the | jcowan> XML escaping, all looks fine. Reinier replied: || It looks like John Cowan was reading the '.' operator the wrong way. The replace || of '&' by '"' is the last line of the function, but it is the first || operation that takes place. Does this mean we can put away the request for guru? -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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